Building Trust Through Testing
Advances in AI and machine learning have the potential to transform fundamentally how the U.S. military deters and fights, and how the Department of Defense operates. Critical to realizing this potential is DOD’s ability to adapt its Test, Evaluation, Validation and Verification enterprise for AI/ML. In a new report to be published in October, WestExec Advisors’ Michèle Flournoy and Gabrielle Chefitz, together with Avril Haines, argue that a robust system for AI/ML TEVV is critical to increasing trust in and, consequently, accelerating the deployment of these systems on a timeline consistent with the rate of innovation, operational need and U.S. ethics and principles. The authors outline how the Defense Department’s Test, Evaluation, Validation and Verification Enterprise – processes, policies, research, infrastructure and personnel — can be adapted to support the deployment of trustworthy, effective and values-based AI-enabled systems in the United States and abroad. Join the authors, alongside Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Ashley Llorens, the Joint AI Center’s Dr. Jane Pinelis, and moderator Richard Danzig, for a panel discussion on the report and the broader questions framing the AI TEVV challenge.